Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, who has been maintaining restraint all these days despite the humiliation being meted out from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government, opened up on Wednesday.
Tamilsai met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and submitted him a report on the way the TRS government was denying her protocol supposed to be extended to a Governor of the state and boycotting her functions.
Right from dropping the customary Governor’s address to the budget session of the state assembly to denial of official invitation to the Yadadri temple inauguration, Tamilisai brought to the Prime Minister’s notice how deliberately KCR was avoiding her and insulting her.
After meeting the Prime Minister, Tamilsai came out sharply against the KCR government while interacting with the media.
She said the state government was treating her with contempt, without giving due respect to even a woman.
“I don’t mind if they want to insult me personally. But they should respect the institution of the Governor. There is a Constitutional system in place and one should honour it. It is surprising even chief secretary is not aware of the protocol to be given to the Governor,” she regretted.
Tamilsai said she had praised the KCR government on several occasions. At the same time, when there were certain issues like lack of proper infrastructure in the government hospital, she had given suggestions by virtue of being a doctor.
On Kaushik Reddy issue, she said there was no dispute at all.
“He was nominated under the Governor’s quota in social service category. I felt he did not fit into that category. So, I refused to accept the file as per my discretion. When another name was suggested, I accepted immediately,” she said.
“Taking it as an excuse, it is not proper for the government to insult the institution of the Governor,” she said.
The Governor said if there were any issues with her, the chief minister could straightaway discuss the same with her.
“I am not a person of controversies. I would like to be friendly with everybody. I have no ego issues either. I am always transparent and want to maintain friendly relations with the government and the people. So, I don’t understand why the state government is behaving with me like this,” she said.